"...This crack in the facade of Mumia's case must be pried open and the great injustice of his persecution put before millions and millions. Now we must intensify our efforts. We must not and will not allow the Philly DA, the Fraternal Order of Police, and all the racist zealots to put Mumia back on track to execution..."

"...The unjust court rulings bring home in sharp terms what is actually required to stop the execution and free Mumia: a broad and determined movement that presents the government with a political situation where they stand to lose far more in carrying out their vicious execution plans than they could hope to gain..."

"...There is a direct and chilling historical parallel between the case of Sacco and Vanzetti and the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal because in both cases the real murderer confessed and exonerated the innocent men wrongly convicted and sentenced to death..."

"...Judge William H. Yohn Jr., in an order last week, denied the July request by Abu-Jamal's lawyers to suspend his two-year-old federal appeal proceedings while they try to reopen his state post-conviction appeals..."

"...Yohn adopted the position of the state's attorney in rejecting Mumia's request to depose Arnold Beverly. Beverly had summitted a sworn statement that he, not Mumia, was the killer of Officer Daniel Faulkner..."

"...Petitioner has a constitutional right to be represented by
retained counsel of his choice in these proceedings, at no expense to the
government. This constitutional right limits the discretion of the District
Court to deny pro hac admission..."

"...Unless a petitioner can establish that a hearing at which the discovered evidence might be admitted is at least permissible under AEDPA standards, he cannot show good cause, and there is no basis for discovery..."

"...From May 1981 through November 1982 I was employed as a confidential source of information (CSI) for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), within an investigation relative to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Police Department..."

"...On April 2, Assistant District Attorney Hugh Burns filed a motion with Judge William H. Yohn asking him to reconsider his order of March 22 refusing Mumia's petition to add a 30th claim to his habeas corpus petition..."

"...it is important to keep focused on the essential issues. Mumia was tried before a notorious pro-police judge who had sentenced more people to death row than any other, in a city - Philadelphia - infamous for its persecution of Black political dissidents..."

"This is a petition to the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals for a writ of mandamus, which would order district court judge William H. Yohn to accept two of the amicus briefs in Mumia's case that Judge Yohn earlier rejected."

"...submitted pursuant to this Court's May 15, 2000 Order granting Petitioner Mumia Abu-Jamal's request for leave to submit supplemental briefing on the "effect of the recent decisions of the Supreme Court, both denominated Williams v. Taylor..."

"...The following response is unfortunately lengthy. Given petitioner's strategy of attempting to unfairly prejudice the court by a lengthy series of inaccurate assertions and credibility arguments, the Commonwealth must offer refutation in detail..."

"...This Memorandum addresses the threshold issue regarding the legal viability of Jamal's previously-filed Petition. [1] It establishes that each of the twenty-nine specified claims in the Petition are grounded in clearly established federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States...."

"...Undaunted by the District Court denial of their briefs, two of the amici, 22 Members of the British Parliament and the For Chicana/Chicano Studies Foundation have filed a petition for extra-ordinary relief (mandamus)..."

"...Here is how to join the appeal of Judge Yohn's outrageous decision to refuse to accept any amicus briefs in Mumia's case. What follows is sample wording for a notice to the court that you wish to join in the petition..."

"...The present Brief underscores the full magnitude of the rights and interests at issue in the Petition under consideration, discusses the parameters of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996..."

"...through their undersigned counsel, submit this Memorandum of Law in support of the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus of Mumia Abu-Jamal filed pursuant to §§ 2241 and 2254 et. Seq. ("Petition"), on the grounds that his sentence of death was obtained in violation of the Constitution of the United States...."

"...On June 9, 1982, during the voir dire (the examination of prospective jurors), Mumia Abu-Jamal was suddenly and without good cause removed from conducting the examination for the defense. This was done at the request of the prosecution..."

"...Mumia Abu-Jamal was not only stripped of his right to defend himself and denied the right to have John Africa sit at the defense table as an advisor, he was also expelled from the courtroom and barred from his own trial at which he was sentenced to death..."

"...Edward Courchain was selected as the first alternate juror, even though he stated that he couldn't be fair to both sides ... and became foreman of the jury that convicted Mumia and sentenced him to death..."

"...A major issue referred to in these (amicus) briefs in a meeting held in chambers (not in open court) between Mumia's court appointed lawyer (Anthony Jackson), Judge Sabo, and prosecutor Joseph McGill; a meeting from which Mumia was excluded..."

"...We are now going to hold a sentencing hearing during which counsel may present additional evidence and arguments and you will decide whether the defendant is to be sentenced to death or life imprisonment..."

"...Governor Ridge of Pennsylvania today signed the death warrant of Mumia Abu Jamal, despite an expected habeus corpus petition from the defendant's lawyers citing: fabrication and suppression of evidence; racial bias in selecting jurors; and denial of the right to self- representation..."

".. First, this case has come to concentrate a major political struggle in society over the whole reactionary agenda emphasizing police powers and speeded-up executions. Second, the courts have many different options in fixing the outcome at each stage. Third, there are tactical decisions that will have to be made by Mumia and his legal defense team at each step along the way..."

"...We conclude that Jamal has a reasonable probability of demonstrating that the Department's actions violated his rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, and that Jamal has demonstrated that he will be subject to irreparable harm if the injunction is not granted..."

"...the Third Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously found that the Department of Corrections had twice violated the rights of Mumia Abu Jamal when they punished him for alleged violating prison regulations..." - press release from International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal

"...He was ... the District Attorney in Philadelphia ten years ago and played a key role in assuring that Mumia not be granted a new trial at that time, despite an unending list of police, prosecutorial, and judicial misconduct..."

"...On May 7 and 8, 1998, KGO-TV broadcast a two-part series attacking the international movement to prevent the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal... In reality, it presented incorrect and false information on virtually every point...."

"...the Philadelphia Bar Association hereby joins the American Bar Association and the Pennsylvania Bar Association and calls for a moratorium on executions in Pennsylvania until such time as the fair and impartial administration of the death penalty can be ensured and the risk that innocent persons may be executed is minimized..."

"...Given the outrageous treatment that Mumia Abu-Jamal has received in the Pennsylvania courts, it is tempting to believe that his situation will greatly improve once he gets into the federal court system. This is a very dangerous illusion..."

"...The simple reality is that the judge has colluded with the prosecution from the outset to secure a conviction and death sentence, assisting the prosecution in its misconduct and in concealing that misconduct..."

"...Upon review and consideration of the testimony offered by Pamela Jenkins it is hereby ordered and decreed that the Defendant, Mumia Abu-Jamal's petition for Post Conviction Collateral Relief is denied..."

"...Petitioner Mumia Abu-Jamal ("Jamal"), by his attorneys, respectfully submits the following supplemental offers of proof in support of the offers made on the record and denied in the course of the June 26, 1997 to July 1, 1997 remand hearing..."

"... The Commonwealth's false denials and pretextual self-justifications with regard to the jury selection claims are a graphic example of the broader pattern of prosecutorial misconduct permeating every aspect of this case...."

"... the Commonwealth has been compelled to radically alter the substance of its arguments and make new arguments. Jamal requests leave to file a short brief to address the Commonwealth's new arguments...."

"... Attorneys for Mumia Abu-Jamal will file new legal papers in the PA Supreme Court on Monday, March 10 requesting an evidentiary hearing to present testimony from a new witness, a former police informant and government witness..."

"... We
are greatly disheartened that the court has exercised it's discretion to disallow hearing oral argument, an event that would have occupied about an
hour of the Court's time with a man's life at stake..."

"... On December 27, celebrated death row author Mumia Abu-Jamal will ask the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to dismiss the case against him or grant a new trial based on Federal District Court (Western PA) Judge Donetta Ambrose's finding that his Sixth Amendment right to counsel was violated..."

"... Albert Sabo, who has presided over more death sentences than any sitting judge in the United States, ruled today that new evidence favorable to convicted journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal could not be added to the record..."

"...Uncovering her testimony is an important step in uprooting a whole chain of prosecutorial misconduct, suppression of evidence, and judicial bias that have been at the heart of the railroad of Mumia Abu-Jamal..."

"... On September 4, 1996, the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania ordered that Mumia Abu-Jamal's post-conviction challenge be
remanded (sent back) to the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas for a further
hearing based on the sworn statement of Veronica Jones. Outrageously, the case has once again been assigned to Judge Sabo..."

"...The Philadelphia District Attorney's office filed a vicious, 190- page response to Mumia's appeal before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. "It's an incredible attack," Weinglass stated. "None of us have ever seen a legal attack like it in an appellate court..."

"...The evidentiary hearing on the motion for a preliminary
injunction in Mumia Abu-Jamal v. James Price et. al. resumed
October 10 and concluded October 16, 1995 in the U.S. District
Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania..." - from the Jamal News Service.

"...At issue are blatant acts by the PA DOC to silence Mumia
forever - to silence his voice of protest in the short run by denying
him access to the media, and to silence him in the long run by
interfering with his legal appeals, his fight to overturn the
conviction and sentence..." - from the Jamal News Service.